Brian Futrell
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Cary, NCNPI 1265471890
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.8%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Kerecis Limited accounts for 73.0% of it on its own, with 44 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $34,907 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $397 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 319 payments — averaging $221.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$52K
- Arthrex$4K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$4K
- Southtech Orthopedics$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $7K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$29,51342%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,50025%
- Travel & lodging$9,39113%
- Food & beverage$10,53515%
- Education$3,4615%
- Entertainment$2880%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$112,010
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$70,522
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$45,633
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$5,917
- Affinity$1,000
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$977
- VARIAX$876
- STAR$302
- ANCHORAGE$279
- InnovaMatrix AC$262
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$225
- AQUACEL AG$151
- SurgX$150
- Xperience$150
- BlastX$150
- OptimalAkin$143
- VANTAGE$137
- BioV$134
- CoLink$134
- Reference Toe System$134
How this compares
$70,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 24 | $336 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 23 | $242 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $143 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Cary
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
- Sagar ChawlaCharlotte$27K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.